Muir was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 10 November 1919.[1] After his father died in 1920, he and his mother immigrated to Canada.[2] After leaving school in grade 8, he worked in the coal mines until injuries ended his ability to do so.[2] Before he was injured for the final time, he was elected as the secretary of his United Mine Workers of America (UMW) local.[2] After recuperating from his injuries, he worked in insurance for London Life until he was elected to parliament.[1] He later served as chair of the Miners’ Hospital in Cape Breton.[3]

He was born in Lindfield,
Sussex and lived with his grandmother while his parents were in India
and Burma. He was the grandson of an admiral and the son of an army
officer.[1] Twiss went to school at Haywards Heath and later at Sherborne School. In 1938 he was employed as an apprentice tea-taster by Brooke Bond in London, before returning to the family farm near Salisbury.[1][2]

In 1960, Fairey Aviation was sold to Westland Aircraft,
a helicopter manufacturer, which was not Twiss’s area. Twiss left after
a career in which he had piloted more 140 different types of aircraft.
Twiss joined Fairey Marine in 1960 and was responsible for development and sales of day-cruisers. He appeared in the film From Russia with Love driving one of the company’s speedboats.[1][6] His work as a marine consultant led to directorships of Fairey Marine (1968–78) and Hamble Point Marina (1978–88).[1]
In 1969, driving the Fairey Huntsman707 Fordsport, he took part in the Round Britain Powerboat Race, including among his crew Rally champion Roger Clark. He also appeared in the film Sink the Bismarck in which he flew a Fairey Swordfish.[7] Twiss was for several years a member of Lasham Gliding Society. His autobiography Faster Than the Sun was published in 1963, and revised in 2005.

Personal life

Twiss’s first three marriages to Constance Tomkinson, Vera Maguire
and Cherry Huggins ended in divorce. His fourth wife, Heather Danby,
died in 1988. He was survived by his fifth wife, Jane de Lucey. He had a
son, three daughters and several stepchildren.[1]

Rosalie Helga Lina Zech known as Rosel Zech,
was a German theater and film actress, especially with the
“Autorenkino” (“Author’s Cinema”) movement, which began in the 1970s died from cancer she was 69..

(7 July 1942 – 31 August 2011)

Theater

Rosel Zech was born in Berlin; her father was a inland waterway boatman and her mother a dressmaker; they were unmarried.[2] She was raised in Hoya, Germany.
Her performing led her, at the age of 20, to Lower Bavaria, where in
1962 her first theatrical engagement was in the South Bavarian City
Theater (now the Lower Bavarian State Theatre) in Landshut.
This was followed by other roles at various other theaters, such as in 1964 at the Städtebundtheater in Biel and at the summer theater in Winterthur. Two years later she played at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal. From 1970 to 1972, she appeared on stage at the Staatstheater Stuttgart then at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.
During the season 1978-1979 Rosel Zech was active in Hamburg at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus and then returned to her native city of Berlin, where she acted on the Volksbühne. In 1981 she was hired by the Bayerischen Staatsschauspiel in Munich. Four years later she was seen again at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. 2009 she worked with in the Luisenburg Festival in the play Mother Courage as Anna Fierlinger.

She died of bone cancer in Berlin on 31 August 2011, aged 69.[2]
Following a cancer diagnosis in the summer of 2011, Zech had not been
able to resume her regular role as a nun in the German TV series Um Himmels Willen (For Heaven’s Sake).

Alla Nikolayevna Bayanova was a Russian singer sometimes compared with Édith Piaf for her simple yet dramatic style of performance died from cancer she was 97..

(18 May 1914 – 30 August 2011)

Biography

Bayanova was born in Kishinev in the family of an opera singer, who moved to Paris in 1918 after Bessarabia decided to unite with Romania. She debuted on the stage as an assistant to her father in 1923, aged 9. By 1927, she was already performing solo. A major step forward in her career was when she assisted Alexander Vertinsky in his famous show at the Hermitage Restaurant, Montmartre. Two years later, her family moved to Belgrade, while Bayanova went on touring Germany, Greece, Palestine, and Egypt.[citation needed]
In 1931, she got acquainted with Pyotr Leshchenko, a foremost Russian singer of the time, who helped her to join the Pavilion Russe in Bucharest. She married a local aristocrat, George Ypsilanti, and made several recordings of tangos (e.g., Columbia, His Master’s Voice). After her divorce from Ypsilanti, she signed a contract with the Polish recording company “Syrena-Electro”.
In March 1941 Bayanova was arrested by the Romanian authorities and interned into a concentration camp for having performed in the Russian language. Although released in May 1942, she was kept under surveillance until the end of World War II.
In the 1960s and 1970s, while still living in Romania, Bayanova issued eight LPs. Nicolae Ceauşescu‘s government, however, pressed her into migrating to the USSR in 1988. Thereupon she settled in Moscow, making occasional appearances on the Russian television.
Bayanova was named People’s Artist of Russian Federation
and celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage career in 2003. In
2004 she sang in a concert to celebrate her 90th birthday. Her last work
was in collaboration with Marc Almond on several duets.
She died on 30 August 2011, aged 97, of cancer. Upon learning of her death, Russian PresidentDmitry Medvedev
stated: “Her life was dedicated to the high purpose of bringing people
joy through interaction with true art. Ms Bayanova had a rare, beautiful
voice, and her mastery and heartfelt performances of Russian songs
gained her recognition around the world.”[1]

Faye Blackstone was an Americanrodeo star, performer and elected member of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame died from cancer she was 96..

(June 3, 1915 – August 30, 2011)

She is credited with inventing three rodeo maneuvers, the reverse fender drag, the flyaway and the ballerina.[1]Blackstone was born Fayetta June Hudson in Diller, Nebraska in 1915.[1] She self taught herself to perform tricks on horses after watching a woman handle a flailing bronco when she was eight years old.[1] In 1937, Blackstone married her husband, the Texan rodeo performer Vic Blackstone, in a ceremony held in the center of a rodeo arena in Bladen, Nebraska.[1] Faye and Vic performed together throughout the United States the 1940s and 1950s.[1] She performed as far away from Nebraska as Havana, Cuba, and competed alongside well known celebrities, including Gene Autry.[1]
Vic Blackstone retired during the 1950s, while Faye Blackstone continued to perform until her retirement during the late 1960s.[1] The couple moved to a home on the outskirts of Parrish, Florida, in Manatee County during the 1951.[2] They worked and raised cattle at a nearby ranch.[1]
In 1978, Blackstone and her husband helped McEntire, the daughter of
friends, launch her career, by arranging for her to perform at a county fair in Florida.[1] McEntire recalled the performance as a breakthrough in her career in a 2003 interview with the Bradenton Herald saying, “That was my first big fair by myself. It was huge to me.”[1][2]
Faye Blackstone was elected into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 1982, the same year that her husband was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame.[2] The Blackstones became the namsakes of Blackstone Park in Palmetto, Florida.[2]

Death

Faye Blackstone died in Bradenton, Florida, aged 96, from cancer, on August 30, 2011. Her husband died in 1987.[1]

In 2007, Peggy and Norman Lloyd were featured in the documentaryWho Is Norman Lloyd?[1] She died on August 30, 2011, at the age of 98. She is survived by her 97-year-old husband of 75 years, and their two children.[1]

Ayala Zacks-Abramov was an Israeli–Canadian art collector died she was 99..
Ayala was widowed three times, and was previously married to the
Canadian art collector Samuel Jacob Zacks and to the knesset member Zalman Abramov.

(1912 – 30 August 2011)

Biography

Zacks-Abramov was born in Jerusalem in 1912 as Ayala Ben-Tovim. Her
parents, Shmuel Ben-Tovim and Rashe (née: Berman) were married in
Jerusalem in 1902. She studied in London and in Paris where she met her
first husband, Morris Fleg, who she married in 1938.[1]
In 1940, during World War II, she joined the French Resistance after Fleg enlisted to the army and was killed during a military operation.
In 1947, she married Samuel Zacks, a Canadian economist and art collector, whom she met during her stay in Switzerland.
After marrying, the couple began to collect art items from the 19th
century and the 20th century, mainly of French, Canadian and Israeli
artists such as Gauguin, Rodin, Picasso, Henri Matisse, Kandinsky and Chagall. They also acquired art by Israeli artists such as Marcel Janco, Mordechai Ardon, Reuven Rubin and Anna Ticho, and art of relatively unknown artists at the time of the purchase such as Ofer Lellouche, Yigal Tumarkin and Joseph Zaritsky.
In 1970, her husband Zacks died. She returned to Israel in 1976 and
married Zalman Abramov, who was a lawyer and a Knesset member.[2] The couple were patrons of the arts, and Abramov continued to support the art world even after her husband’s death in 1997.
Zachs-Abramov supported over the years the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum
and had a hand in their growth. Both the museums have halls named after
her. She mentioned theses museums in her will, in which she declared
that her art collection would be divided between them.
The Israeli notable painter Joseph Zaritsky painted a well-known figurative portrait of her.
Many of the art works in Zachs-Abramov’s possession were donated or
loaned through to years to museums in Israel, France and Canada.

Robert Brendan McDowell MA, PhD, Litt.D, LLD, MRIA, FTCD, was an Irish historin died he was 97. He was a Fellow Emeritus and a former Associate Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin. He was born in Belfast. He was referred to colloquially as “RB” or “McDowell”.

(14 September 1913 – 29 August 2011)

University career

McDowell was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where he discovered his love of history. Here he met T. W. Moody,
later an esteemed colleague in the History department at Trinity. He
was first appointed a lecturer in Trinity in 1945, and for 13 years
(1956–1969) was the Junior Dean of Students, or “Dean of Discipline”, a
role that involved disciplining students in the tumultuous 1960s and
resulted in many amusing anecdotes. He resided in the college until the
age of 94, when he retired to Celbridge.
In 2007, The College Historical Society of which McDowell was a vice-president unveiled a portrait of McDowell, which can be seen in the Graduates’ Memorial Building, alongside Douglas Hyde & Theobald Wolfe Tone, amongst others.

Bibliography

McDowell’s published work concentrated on the era when Britain and
Ireland shared a government, and aspects of the Irish-British
relationship.

As well as his scholarship, McDowell became celebrated for his eccentric dress, his Ulsterdiction
and his ability to talk knowledgeably at great length. Hundreds of
anecdotes by former colleagues and students were published in 2 volumes
after his retirement:

Virginia Wambui Otieno was a female Kenyan
politician who in July 2003 briefly rose to prominence due to her
controversial fight to bury her first husband in one of the most
protracted legal cases in Kenya and later, her marriage to stonemason Peter Mbugua died she was 75..
The marriage was controversial since Wambui Otieno was 67 whilst Peter
Mbugua was 25. This marriage caused much debate amongst the Kenyan
population.[1]
Wambui Otieno is sister to Kenya’s former foreign Minister, Dr Munyua Waiyaki. Wambui Otieno died on August 30th 2011.

Mau Mau freedom fighter

She published an autobiography titled “Mau Mau Daughter: A Life History”.
She had had 3 children while working as a Mau Mau freedom fighter.
She was arrested for her involvement in mobilizing in the women’s wing
of the Mau Mau’s riots. Towards the end of the State of Emergency, the
British colonial state arrested her and sent her to a detention camp on
the coast.[2]
In the years following Mau Mau, Wambui met and married S.M. Otieno, a prominent Luo
lawyer. Together they produced one of the most successful law firms in
post-colonial Kenya. Her daughter is Gladwell Otieno, former director of
TI Kenya (Transparency International) and director of “AFRICOG” African
Center of open Gouvernance.
Wambui Otieno was one of the first women to run for elected office.

Legal case

In 1994 she was the subject of a legal case that established modern
legal rights of wives in polygamous marriages vs. tribal law.[3]

Her 2003 marriage to Peter Mbugua was subject of a national
controversy. Many of their relatives condemned the marriage. There have
been allegations that the death of Mbugua’s mother’s, which happened
only days after the marriage, was caused by a shock she got upon
learning of the marriage.[7]
As of 2008, they were living together with her stonemason husband in Karen, Nairobi.[7]
In February 2011 they held a second wedding ceremony, now at St
Andrew’s Church in Nairobi, while the first wedding had been a civil
ceremony.[8]
Wambui had suffered heart failure previously and was relying on a pacemaker, an electronic gadget implanted to function as the heart does Wambui Otieno died on August 30, 2011 in a Nairobi Hospital.[9]